It’s now several years since the Vatican told the world, on February 28, 2013, that Pope Benedict XVI was resigning. His reason, or maybe his rationale, was failing health due to old age – he was 86. (click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)

The current terror over toxic drugs –- the mutiny of taking “fentanyl” will have killed roughly 4,000 Canadians in 2017 — is now tragically deep in history. (click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)

It’s difficult -- indeed very difficult just before Christmas-- for me, like his own people -- to dislike Pope Francis. He has, in my view, all the right emotional expression, both physical and psychological. (click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)

A few days ago, some friends invited Barbara and myself to a Sunday service in St Andrews United Church in midtown Toronto and for a good reason: the preacher was a close colleague of the great and famous man I interviewed back in 1962: the late Martin Luther King. (click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)